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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is a judgment of supply and demand. Emotionally, the transplant touched more ambiguous chords. "My ethical meter says this is O.K. and should be done. My gut-feeling meter says, 'Wow, this is very troubling.' It's in the Ripley's 'Believe It or Not' category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daughter's Last Gift | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...whose adherents make up the majority of clinic protesters. Scheidler and other attendees report that after nearly two days of debate, barely half those present specifically repudiated Hill's extremist views. Adds Scheidler: "It wasn't just justifiable homicide; it was ((support for)) violence, bombing and arson . . . I thought, 'Wow! The movement has gone through some kind of transition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apologists For | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...film moves in a seamless fashion from pow-wow discussions involving the supporting cast to odd shots of hands and candles and lights fading in and out. The rest of the cast (T. Wendy McMillan as the professor Kia, Migdalia Melendez as Kia's lover, Evy, and the cavorting Daria, played by Anastasia Sharp) gossip about the progress of Max and Ely's romance. And I forgot to mention, the entire film is made in black and white...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: THE GIRL IS OUT THERE | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...author has changed, so has California. It is now a place where visitors marvel and say, "Wow, this must have been great." Breaking camp at Yosemite one morning at 6:30, after a night of headlights, radios and tape decks, Barich counts incoming cars: four a minute. "Almost 3.5 million tourists visited Yosemite every year, and I saw what a job it must be just to keep the rest rooms clean." Where to now, Ansel Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Lotus Land No More | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...feeling when I saw this movie, I thought, wow--this will be another "Love Story...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Moira Muses, Patrick Parties and Alek Waxes Floppy | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

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